Mathematics Professor Gilbert “Gil” Strang taught his last class to thousands after teaching calculus, analysis, and linear algebra for more than 60 years at MIT and online. He reflects on his life...

Professors and students alike praised math professor Gilbert Strang for his contributions last week. One social media user said his book "Introduction to Applied Mathematics" is a masterpiece.

Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — for 66 years.

Sixteen new faculty joined the MIT departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics in 2023 as professors and scientists.

Three co-developers of the Julia programming language — Jeff Bezanson, Stefan Karpinski, and Viral Shah — have won the James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software.

MIT Professor Peter Shor has won the 2023 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics with three others for “foundational work in the field of quantum information.” In addition, Daniel A. Spielman PhD...

QS World University Rankings has rated MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2021. The Institute ranks second in four subject areas.

Danielle Wang, an MIT senior in mathematics, is a two-time Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize winner, awarded each year to the top-ranking female competitor. She will pursue a PhD in math at MIT following...

MIT’s Linear Algebra class has surpassed 10 million views on OpenCourseWare (OCW). That’s the kind of math that makes Professor Gilbert Strang one of the most recognized mathematicians in the world....

Gilbert Strang shares the 5 best books on mathematicians and their lives. Have you read The Man Who Knew Infinity?

Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering, a new course launched through the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing’s Common Ground for Computing Education initiative, shows students how...

While pursuing his Ph.D, the former Ravens offensive lineman has championed helping more Black students enter the field of mathematics.

How will advances in computing transform human society? MIT students contemplated this impending question as part of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize — an essay contest in which they...

MIT researchers solved an old geometry problem on equiangular lines, a breakthrough that determines the maximum possible number of lines that can be placed so that the lines are pairwise separated by...

One of my favorite professors, Gilbert Strang, comes by the lab to talk about his time at MIT since 1952. Anyone who knows professor Strang knows him to be one of the best mathematics teachers and a...

Experiments reveal a hydrodynamic analog of an important effect in quantum optics called superradiance.

Arthur Mattuck, emeritus professor of mathematics at MIT, has died at age 91. A specialist in algebraic geometry, the long-standing professor and former department head was influential across the...

MIT Professor Jörn Dunkel and alumnus Surya Ganguli received the 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath award, while Professor Josh Tenenbaum was named a Schmidt Futures’ AI2050 Senior Fellows.

For the second time in the history of the annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, all five of the top spots in the contest, known as Putnam Fellows, came from a single school — MIT.

Rupert Li, an MIT undergraduate student studying mathematics, and Audrey Xie, an undergrad studying mathematics and computer science, have been awarded Barry Goldwater Scholarships for their research...

MIT mathematician Jörn Dunkel looks for similarities across complex systems, from an embryo’s wrinkles to the twist of spaghetti.

The All-Big Ten and NFL lineman will discuss technology in mathematics at a Penn State symposium.

[The following statement is signed by several mathematicians at Stanford and MIT in support of one of their recently admitted graduate students, and I am happy to post it here on my blog. -T] We we…

Nature Physics - Wrinkling of cell nuclei is associated with disease. During development, the nucleus behaves like a sheet of paper and the wrinkling amplitude can be manipulated without changing...

Thirteen MIT undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni have won fellowships from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright U.S. Student Program to pursue grants overseas in 2023-24. For four years in...

Joshua Kuffour aims to take classes in as many departments as possible before he graduates from MIT. “It's taught me about valuing different ways of thinking,” says the senior, who is double-majoring...

Mathematician and former National Football League player John Urschel on what it will take to see more students of color in STEM careers.

MIT-affiliated researchers Juncal Arbelaiz, Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, Sandya Subramanian, and Heather Zlotnick have been named Schmidt Science Fellows.

MIT senior David Darrow loves to use math as a way to explore the world around him. His other passions are language — he has studied German, Russian, French, and Spanish at the Institute — and...

MIT faculty members Anantha Chandrakasan, Alan Edelman, and Samuel Madden were recognized as 2020 ACM fellows for their work that underpins contemporary computing.

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AI systems that can solve complex math could allow us to build more powerful AI tools.

MIT senior Ananya Gurumurthy adds her musical talents to her math and computer science studies to advocate for using data for social change.

Congratulations to all our student-nominated winners!

MIT senior math and economics major Fiona Chen is using support from the MindHandHeart Innovation Fund and a Peter J. Eloranta Fellowship to perform on a study on how Covid-19 and students’ online...

The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition inspires MIT class 18.A34 (Mathematical Problem Solving), which helps students solve proofs for the joy of solving, and provides a gentle entry to...

MIT won the 83rd William Putnam Mathematical Competition, sweeping the top five spots for third consecutive year. MIT also took home the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize for the top-scoring woman.

MIT biologists have developed a computer modeling technique that lets them use cryo-electron microscopy to identify multiple possible structures that a protein can take.

A topological metric framework makes it possible to compare biological, physical and astronomical systems.

Thirty-eight extraordinary MIT students have been named 2021 Burchard Scholars. The undergraduate students selected for the competitive program enjoy a year-long seminar series on leading research,...

Third annual MIT Statistics and Data Science conference gathers a growing interdisciplinary community of researchers and practitioners.

Twelfth grader Jessica Wan won the 15th Math Prize for Girls (MP4G) annual contest for female-identifying students, hosted by the MIT Department of Mathematics, for the third time.

MIT senior Tony Zhang, double-majoring in physics and mathematics with computer science, and minoring in music, pursues all three of his academic interests, forming what he calls a “math and friends...

Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore M. Singer, a renowned MIT mathematician who united math and physics, has died at age 96. Singer laid the foundations for the development of index theory was a...

A new proof breaks a decades-long drought of progress on the problem of estimating the size of triangles created by cramming points into a square.

MIT students won all five spots in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for the fourth year in a row and also captured the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize.